Re: [Vim-latex-devel] Re: Alt mappings

[Srinath A. <sr...@fa...>]

On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Benji Fisher wrote:

> Mikolaj Machowski wrote:
> > create his own mappings by doing :map ]em FEM (in another words: create
> > latexSuite API). But I do not know how to do this.
>
Well, Mikolaj's idea works OOTB for me... for example, if I do:

imap ]em FEM

Then when I press ]em, I do use latex-suite's FEM macro. Unfortunately,
doing

call IMAP(']em', 'FEM', 'tex')

doesn't work (I just get 'FEM')...

>       This is what <Plug> is for.  We already use this in imaps.vim .
> Just search for "<Plug>" to see the examples.

Well, latex-suite provides <plug>s for things like IMAP_Jumpfunc(), not
for things like EFI in insert mode which generates the figure micro
template... Doing it the <plug> way for those will be, I think
needlessly complex.

If we had a way of modifying s:LookupCharacter() in imaps.vim so that
its public, then we could have done something like:

call IMAP(']em', "\<C-r>=IMAP_LookupMap('FEM')\<CR>", 'tex')

(Ofcourse, this is not the way IMAP_LookupMap works right now...)

and then ]em will expand to what FEM did previously... Maybe we can even
provide a function,

IMAP_Remap('FEM', ']em', 'tex')

which well, does what Mikolaj wants... For some time, I have been
thinking of providing a IMAP_UnMap() function... If we implement that,
IMAP_Remap() will be implemented almost the same way...

In short, I do not think doing what Mikolaj wants is very complex, and
in fact, instead of going about it changing all the places where the
maps are created, providing a IMAP_Remap() might be the way to go.

Ofcourse, this a new feature, so maybe we should wait for a little
while. I am thinking of making another vim.sf.net sometime soon, because
we seem to be decently stable and bug-free...

Srinath